Production Manager
£60-70k, £5k car allowance, bonus, health insurance, death in service and pension
About the Business: A successful FMCG manufacturer with long standing reputation and market leader in their field. Highly innovative, quality and customer focused business. Classic FMCG operation so ideal for those who prefer a deadline driven environment. Well-structured site with a modern and progressive culture that stems from the Senior Leadership Team.
Benefits and working hours:
The role is a Monday to Friday days position.
As well as an excellent salary of £60,000-£70,000 plus £5,000 car, the client is offering the following benefits:
About the role:
A product Manager role which is all about being present on the shop floor with the team as well as a member of the Senior Team on site. This role is all about people development, building cohesive teams and consistently educating, coaching, and mentoring around the need to meet KPI’s including quality and customer service. What have you achieved that you are proud of in your current role? What have been your key drivers and your approach to achieve them? Anyone with an eye for kit and engineering processes would really flourish in this role – not an engineer but you understand the kit and what’s involved. A good food manufacturing or FMCG background is essential for this role.
Overview of Responsibilities for the Production Manager:
What experience do you need for this Production Manager role?
If you feel you fit the brief for this opportunity and would like to take on a new challenge with an exciting business, click ‘apply now’ to be considered. Interviews to be scheduled by end January.
Interim Management Accountant
£350 – £400 per day plus expenses – Outside IR35
Ideal role for an operationally focused management accountant – January Start!
A successful FMCG manufacturer supply the major UK retailers, part of a larger group and a renowned reputation in their sector. They have an outstanding site in South Yorkshire with the attitude and culture to match.
This is an immediate need for an Interim Management Accountant (outside IR35) with a manufacturing background to understand the demands of the factory. Working closely with the senior management team, attending meetings and being present for ad hoc update meetings is all part and parcel of the MA role in this sector.
As Interim Management Accountant, the role involves working closely with the Site Head of Operations and Executive Team to make informed decisions around the financial data.
You would be responsible for:
As the subject matter expert for the site, you would be the finance business partner to the Head of Operations providing the strategic and operational support to this FMCG manufacturer. Along with analysis, accurate reporting and supporting the management team, is the need to be a confident and clear communicator. A reasonably time driven environment requires an agile approach and the ability to be close to the operational detail and able to convey and discuss issues with the effective impact and within the appropriate timescales.
A background at the MA or above in manufacturing is essential for this role.
Interviews will be conducted immediately so please forward your cv to the Novus team without delay for first stage Team interviews in January.
Disclaimer: Novus Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and interim recruitment within the United Kingdom. As such, we can only consider applications from candidates who currently reside and are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. Once we have received your details, we will be in touch within 7 days if your application has been successful for the role. We appreciate this can be frustrating but due to the sheer volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to each one individually. If you have not been contacted within 7 days of applying, unfortunately this means your application has not been successful, but we may keep your details on file for future opportunities – please see below. Novus Recruitment Limited is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.
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Production Manager
£60k plus car and good package
Based South Yorkshire
In any food manufacturing environment, a good production manager is the key link in the factory. What makes a good production manager? The transferrable skills for this role are all about people development, being close to the team and fully understanding the process and its capabilities.
Once those basic principles are in place, the systems are in place and starting to bed in then measures can be set that once achieved, will have those tangible effects required in this factory.
This role needs someone who understands manufacturing, what it is like to work with systems and processes that everyone can follow. What it means for everyone in the team to understand what each team and everyone in that team needs to deliver that day, week, month for the production function to meet their goals. This is the ideal environment for someone who understands ambient production, what changes can be made to alter performance and improve overall efficiencies.
In this role you need to look at the day to day and further ahead at the week and month to ensure you are driving a manufacturing unit that constantly reviews what’s gone well and what can be improved on so the team is moving forward together on an improvement journey.
Working closely with the site lead, together it is an opportunity to head up the production team and be a change agent. You need ambition and the resilience to deliver the results in those first few months. Those results will be through working with people.
The Business
A successful food manufacturer with excellent infrastructure and kit.
Supplying major UK retailers in own label product categories.
Part of a larger group.
Category captain in their field.
Significant investment planned in the next 12 months.
Outstanding site – modern and progressive attitude both in the operation and culture.
The Role
Managing a medium sized shift Monday to Friday.
Working closely with the production teams with a heavy focus on people development.
Driving process improvement drawing on previous experience and successes.
Motivating and gaining the trust and buy-in from the production teams through open communication and training.
To constantly identify opportunities and continually improve the production business unit.
Knowing the detail and being hands-on in the factory.
Reporting into a site lead with a refreshing open and upbeat style. There is plenty to be done and the positive support of an experienced site lead will make all the difference.
Ideally you need a background in food production for retail to understand the challenges involved and the detail involved in audits, food safety, GMP etc.
You have worked in environments that consistently deliver against a KPI suite and know how to take a team to that same standard.
As mentioned above, your recent roles will have been delivering improvements through your understanding of the daily activity in the factory and the issues involved. Being fully integrated in the team and the issues faced on the shop floor enables that flow of information and how to see what the levers are to make the required change.
Encouraging accountability and responsibility is always required in production management but the first plan is to ensure the basics are in place, that everyone believes that more can be achieved and is part of that improvement process.
We know everyone is working to their maximum right now so we are happy to work out of hours, don’t let a demanding job stop you from joining a growing business that could be that next step to grow your career or simply a better business and environment for you.
Send your cv, let’s book a call and discuss it in more detail.
Disclaimer: Novus Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and interim recruitment within the United Kingdom. As such, we can only consider applications from candidates who currently reside and are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. Once we have received your details, we will be in touch within 7 days if your application has been successful for the role. We appreciate this can be frustrating but due to the sheer volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to each one individually. If you have not been contacted within 7 days of applying, unfortunately this means your application has not been successful, but we may keep your details on file for future opportunities – please see below. Novus Recruitment Limited is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation, or age.
GDPR: Complying with GDPR is very important to us at Novus Recruitment. By applying for this job you accept the Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found on our website. We will add your details to our database to enable us to contact you regarding other job opportunities we work on in the future. Please see our website for details of why and how we hold your data, and for how long.
